Marissa: Amazing. Oh, my God. Ha ha! Every time I
see you with your kids, I just can't get over how easy you make it look.

Kendall: Oh. We don't agonize over it one bit.

Bianca: No. Or worry every time
someone coughs.

Kendall: Yeah. Or obsess about them being happy.

Marissa: Yeah,
but you still make it look easy, even after everything you've been through.

J.R.: It's just you, me, and A.J. for the moment. So, please, can we stop
fighting?

Colby: Start over? Yeah, I know, J.R. I've heard it about a million
times now.

J.R.: But I mean it. This is my priority, bringing the family back
together. I've even reached out to Scott.

Colby: Wow. Did he reach back with a
punch in the face?

J.R.: No. But he will be working at Chandler. He'll be moving
back in here.

Colby: You are seriously delusional right now.

J.R.: I can make
this work, Colby. I know I can, but I can't do it alone. If you don't want to do
it for me, do it for A.J. Let's give him what we never had.

A.J.: Aunt Colby,
will you put this picture on your new computer?

J.R.: Oh. You know, that's my
favorite one, buddy. Can you go see if you can find a couple more? We can start
slow. Dinner, just the two of us. I got to go to ConFusion, see about a
replacement for Annie. Do me a favor. Meet me there in an hour. Colby? We can do
this.

Liza: I slept with my
daughter's boyfriend. There's no coming back from that.

David: You're kidding,
right? Have you forgotten who you're talking to here? Come on, Liza. You can
beat this. I've seen you in that courtroom. I've seen the look in your eyes when
you have the defense up against the ropes. You're unstoppable.

Liza: Not
anymore.

David: Not necessarily. I can talk with the mayor. I can convince her
to keep you on.

Liza: Yeah, in exchange for what?

David: As you may know, I am
in the process of trying to get my medical license back. I've got a few irons in
the fire, but having the D.A. on my side -- now, that could really help seal the
deal.

Cara: So what do you need saving from?

Tad: Well, for one thing, my life
has been a veritable cornucopia of adventure. Someday I'll sit down and tell you
about it, turn your hair white.

Cara: I like the sound of that.

Tad: Only thing
is not so much lately, except if you count that go-around with Liza Colby as
total disaster. I've been sort of in a rut.

Cara: So -- is the threat on my life
kind of helping you through a midlife crisis?

Tad: I wouldn't put it that way,
no.

Cara: No? It's the general idea, though.

Tad: Yeah? Aah. Hmm!

Cara: You ok?
Here.

Tad: Yeah. Thanks. Anyway, being your husband, even a fake husband, ain't
that much of a chore, you know? Who the hell am I kidding? Ugh! In your case,
it's worth the attempt. I just don't want to cramp your style.

Cara: You're not
cramping my style. However, I think we need to lose the sweatpants.

Tad: What's
wrong with the sweatpants?

Cara: Everything.

Tad: They're a classic.

Cara: Well,
we're gonna work on that.

Tad: Yeah. First thing tomorrow, up and at 'em.

Cara:
Ok. Let's help you get up and at 'em right now.

Tad: But tonight it's gonna be
me in these old sweats and a sofa and two great games on television.

Cara: No.
You know what? Get up.

Tad: No. Come on. The tipoff's in the next 5 minutes.

Cara: You just said you want me to save you, yes? So let's start right now. Why
don't you take your wife out on a date?

Joe: Oh. There he is.

Jake: Dad, I
didn't know you were coming here today. We look exactly -- if I knew you were
coming, I would've sprinkled a couple of happy-looking, healthy patients, make
the place look better. Maybe get a haircut. I don't know. How you doing?

Joe:
You're doing fine.

Jake: I'm good, thank you. Ok. Yeah. I want to hang out with
you, but I have to find a couple of board members. I need to talk to them about
something, twist their arms off their body.

Joe: If this is about Cara, I have
heard, yeah.

Jake: Yeah. The board doesn't want to hire her full-time, because of
the immigration problem.

Joe: And also, I understand, because there's an
outstanding complaint against her from a parent of a patient, a young girl with
cancer?

Jake: You're not here two minutes, and you're so on top of your game. Yes,
she had a problem with a patient's father, but she apologized -- she was gonna
apologize.

Joe: Apparently, she did not, and, apparently, they have been waiting
months.

Jake: Yeah, well, Dad, she's had a hard time, to her credit. Homeland
Security thought she's a terrorist.

Joe: Jake, they're getting ready to sue the
hospital.

Jake: I know. All right. Here's what I'm gonna do, Dad -- and this is if
you think it's a good idea. I will talk to the board. I will tell them that she
is an incredible doctor, that she had this little altercation with a patient's
father, but it's because the girl could not fight her own battles, and Cara is
the same as that little girl, that she fought the same battles.

Joe: Cancer?

Jake: Leukemia. And, Dad, the only reason that she went overboard is because she
cares so much. There wasn't a single day when we were out in the field that she
didn't risk her life for somebody else's. A guy lying there with his chest open,
she's working on him. Bullets could be flying by, and she wouldn't stop. It's
that kind of dedication, that kind of commitment -- that doesn't come along every
day. That's a once-in-a-lifetime thing.

Joe: Cara is very lucky to have
you on her side.

Marissa: If A.J. saw me having a treat
before dinner, I'd never hear the end of it.

Bianca: Oh, no. Miranda caught me
having dessert before dinner once, I lost all credibility.

Marissa: I know, but
sometimes you just want a big old piece of chocolate cake.

Kendall: Of course!
Binks told me you have been amazing with this whole divorce. You just had one of
your own, and I would think you'd want to stay away from custody suits the rest
of your life.

Marissa: No. Just the opposite, actually. It makes me want to
fight harder.

Kendall: How do you make it work with J.R.?

Marissa: Oh. Well, I
don't know. At first we fought like crazy, and then we just stopped fighting,
you know? Bottom line, A.J. loves his father, and he needs him in his life.

Joe: So how does it feel, Chief of Staff? I bet Angie had to
drag you in kicking and screaming.

Jake: There was some kicking, a little bit of
screaming, but you don't say no to Angie, right?

Joe: No. That's a good point.

Jake: I couldn't let this old place down. I got to say, though, I don't know how
you did all those years: The budget cuts and the boardroom meetings and all the
bull.

Joe: Oh, more than offset by the recoveries, healthy babies, and even a
miracle occasionally.

Jake: But you managed to be a great doctor and a great
administrator at the same time --

Joe: Jake, it's not that difficult once you get
the hang of it.

Jake: Pop, it is for me. Give me a tent and a medical bag and
throw me in a field, and I'm a happy guy. That's where I'm good. No hospital
bureaucracy and the staff politics and all the PR and the red tape. No. Sew
somebody up, make people healthy, and then that's it.

Joe: I know it was a very
exciting time for you, but are you sure being out of a hospital is what you miss
most about that time?

Jake: What Cara and I had was incredible. It was
beautiful. And when it ended, even though I didn't understand it at the time, I
moved on. With Amanda, I have an opportunity to do something beautiful and have
something amazing like you and Mom do. I don't want to blow that, you know? I
don't want to blow that. I guess after roaming the world and trying to find
myself, I finally found where I belong, which is here with my wife and my son.

Joe: Ok. It's done. Now we need
to get family matters straight. I want to know that you're not going to do
anything to hurt Tad, or do anything to get in the way of Jake's marriage.

Jake:
Dad, I'm an adult.

Joe: I would like to hear this from Cara.

Cara: I won't hurt
Tad or Jake. I will not cause trouble with his marriage. I want nothing but the
best for this family that's been so generous to me.

Joe: Ok. I guess that's all
that can be said, Cara Martin.

Cara: Thank you.

Joe: Well, better be on my way.
I have a meeting with your brother-in-law -- your husband.

Jake: Dad, I'll see you
and Mom before you go, ok?

Cara: You really lucked out in the Dad department.

Jake: Yeah, I know.

Cara: So -- the board. I thought the board had a major
problem with me.

Jake: I didn't tell you about the condition that they have.

Cara: Oh, gosh, there's a condition. Of course.

Jake: The parents of that young
girl that you pissed off -- you need to go to them, and you need to apologize. You
need to tell them that you were wrong.

Cara: Yeah. Jake, I said I would do it,
and I can actually do it right now. I got a little distracted with Agent
Trumbull and all. So, yep, I'm gonna go do that right -- but I got to tell you, to
go on record and say that it's wrong for a sick child to have a normal life?

Jake: The board is adamant about this.

Cara: The board is wrong.

Jake: We're not
in the field now. Ok? It's not where anything goes. This hospital has rules, and
you need to follow those rules like everybody else. And if you can't, you need
to tell me, and I will let you go.

Amanda: Oh, don't worry. Won't have to get me
home tonight -- club soda.

J.R.: Me, too. So why are relationships still so damn
hard? You and Jake ok?

Amanda: Yeah. We're great.

J.R.: I'm picking up on some
sarcasm.

Amanda: No, I -- we really are back on the right track. I just feel like
at any moment it could just fall through again. I just want everything to get
back to the way it was when it was good. Really, really good.

Kendall: Why would
you say that you're a bad mother?

Marissa: A.J. is having trouble with the
custody arrangement, and J.R. keeps asking me to move back in with him for
A.J.'s sake. That's what he says, but I don't trust him.

Kendall: What did you
tell him?

Marissa: I told him no six times, but I don't know. Maybe I'm being
selfish, putting myself before my son?

Kendall: A.J. will be ok. The most
important thing is for you to take care of yourself, and that means staying as
far away from J.R. as possible.

Liza: Come on. Can't you just it? Just say it.
You are ashamed to be anywhere near me.

Liza: Ok. Then the heck -- why don't you just all just take a really
good look. Look all you want, but make sure you go home, and you lock up your
boys, because I'm out, I'm here, and I am looking for a good time. Huh. What?
Come on. Judge me. You want to give me looks? You can give me looks. You can
give me looks, because I'm not apologizing for any of this because this is who I
am. And if you don't like it, then you all can just go -- Colby, I didn't
see you there. I -- how long have you been standing there? Please wait.
Please wait.

J.R.: No, I'll go. She's already heard enough from you.

David: All
right, Counselor. What do you say I take you home?

Kendall: Liza just cannot
keep her hands off other people's men.

Bianca: I feel so bad for Colby.

Kendall:
Doing that to your own kid is just sick.

Marissa: Liza made a mistake.

Kendall:
You're defending her?

Marissa: No. But I've known both of them for a long time,
and Liza loves her daughter more than anything. That's why she took her away
from Adam all those years ago.

Kendall: All right. Wait a second. If you're
about to compare yourself to Liza --

J.R.: I tried to talk to her, but she can't deal. I'll try
again when she calms down. Where the hell is this guy?

Amanda: Who?

J.R.: I'm
interviewing someone to take over Annie's old job. He's half an hour late.

Amanda: You're hiring?

J.R.: I wanted to. Looks like I got stood up.

Amanda:
Yeah, me, too. Jake was supposed to meet me for dinner.

J.R.: I'm sorry. Is
there anything I can do?

Amanda: Actually, yes. You can hire me.

J.R.: At
Chandler? I don't think that's a good fit.

Amanda: Annie was talking about her
job all the time. Public relations, relating to people -- I'm really good at
that.

J.R.: But there's more to it than that.

Amanda: I could send up some of
the old press releases I did up at Fusion. I'm really good at getting people to
talk. And positive buzz -- that's what Chandler needs right now.

J.R.: I thought
you gave all that up to stay at home with Trevor.

Amanda: I did for a while, but
we have a part-time nanny now. And I've been volunteering at the Miranda Center,
but I am ready for more.

J.R.: I don't know.

Amanda: Come on. I know I don't
have a big resume or some fancy degree, but neither did Babe. And you believed
in her, and you encouraged her. Look how far she went. Come on. I am just asking
for a chance.

J.R.: All right. No guarantees. I'm willing to give it a shot. You
can start tomorrow.

Amanda: Thank you! Thank you, J.R.! You will not be sorry!

J.R.: Just don't be late.

Amanda: Ok.

Cara: If anyone should write the rules on
caring for sick children, it should be me.

Jake: Yeah, you're not on the board,
ok? When you are on the board, it'll be different.

Cara: There is more to
healing than what a hospital can provide, especially when it comes to children.
You cannot isolate them, Jake. Look at me! They need to be out in the open.

Jake: I'm not disagreeing with you, ok? You can't knock on the kid's door,
though, and take her out to play on the swing set.

Cara: But you can't tell me
how to practice medicine, ok? You don't have the right to do that!

Jake:
Actually, I do. Inside these walls, I do have --

Cara: I go above and beyond for
my patients, and I will not stop now.

Jake: This is not a war zone, Cara! It's
not Doctors Without Borders, ok? We have borders in here. You need to stay
inside the borders. Immigration's all over you, trying to prove that you're a
fraud. Having a job, a real job -- that will help you. You need that.

Cara: Ok. I
get it. We're both weirded out that I married your brother, right? So that's
what this is about? You're trying to find some kind of clarity by drawing the
line, by reminding me that you're my boss? It's cool, Jake. I'm gonna go, and I'm
gonna apologize and -- because I need this job, and I will say the words that I am
forced to say.

Jake: Thank you.

Cara: Thank you for going to bat
for me again. But I just need to say this. I will never compromise how I
practice medicine for anyone.

Marissa: We just keep going from
restaurant to restaurant, huh?

Bianca: Where's A.J.?

Marissa: Oh, God. When I
got here, Opal had already taken him to J.R.'s. It's ok, though. I'm gonna see
him tomorrow.

Bianca: Do you mind if I join you?

Marissa: Isn't it kind of late?
Don't you want to go home to your girls?

Bianca: They're asleep.

Marissa: Ok.
Then sit down. Enjoy yourself.

Bianca: Thank you.

Marissa: You're welcome.

Bianca: Excuse me. May I please have a big slice of chocolate cake, and two
forks?

Marissa: Good call. Love it.

Kendall: I had fun tonight, Zach. It felt
good. I feel like I'm coming back to life again.

Liza's voice: Why don't you
just all just take a really good look. All right? But then make sure that you go
home and you lock up your boys, because I'm still here. I'm out here, and I am
looking for a good time.

Colby: Good job, Mom. Almost a million hits.

David: So
why are you staying in a hotel?

Liza: Because every time I go back to my
apartment, there's some freak who saw Colby's video, some idiot who wants to
take a live look at the "Cougar Mom." Oh, David, to see that look of disgust in
my daughter's eyes --

David: I know that feeling. I had one daughter who died
hating me. The other one, Marissa, wants nothing to do with me.

Liza: Can you
blame her?

David: No, I can't. This is who I am. I'm not gonna change. Neither
are you, Liza. Our children will either accept us as we are or they won't.
There's no controlling that.

Liza: I wish you would stop comparing me to you,
because you and I, we are -- we're nothing alike.

David: I understand you, Liza,
and I think you understand me. So why not make the most of it?

Joe: You've got
quite a wife there.

Tad: Yeah, she's something. But you're still gonna tell me
it was a mistake to marry her to keep her in the country.

Joe: No, I'm not gonna
tell you that. I've given a lot of thought to it. How could I not be proud of
you?

Tad: Thanks, Pop. It's a relief to know that you're on board.

Joe: I am.

Tad: But?

Joe: I look at you and your brother. I don't think this is going to
end well.

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